New Amazon Prime Streaming - total crap!

[Digger]

Maybe they are updating the catalog as people start using the streaming service?

[Mutley]

Perhaps they've realised how much they've screwed this up and are resetting all that was free as lovefilm. The twitter feed hasn't been very positive

[ExV8]

I like it.

Lots of stuff I want to watch which I would have bought the DVD for so quids in for me. Samsung TV and blu ray don't work with it so have to use my daughters wii for the downstairs tv.

I do agree though that it should be an option on renewal to continue with or without.

[Siscar]

ExV8 said:

I like it.

Lots of stuff I want to watch which I would have bought the DVD for so quids in for me. Samsung TV and blu ray don't work with it so have to use my daughters wii for the downstairs tv.

I do agree though that it should be an option on renewal to continue with or without.

Yes, I've just watched a film about The Who, was good, was streamed to my iPad and then airplay to my tv, work end well

[vrsmxtb]

Well spotted folks, I used Lovefilm Online a few times while it was free but there really wasn't that much worth watching on there. Cancel Amazon Prime, and save £6 a month on getting discs, sounds good to me!

This really feels like they're going to get rid of the whole films by post deal. I take it the Lovefilm site is gone for good now?

[carreauchompeur]

I'm glad this has pissed other people off too. I turned on LoveFilm the the day after receiving the e-mail about it moving to Amazon. Tried to watch the next of the Spooks box set I was on and it told me to go to Amazon to buy it!

They can FRO. The whole point of a subscription service is that you get to choose free stuff, not pay again... Muppets.

[Obi Wan]

I'm confused. I subscribe to Netflix and I was looking into lovefilm because it offers the same service but with a wider library of films. Can you not stream tv and films as much as want you want for a set fee then? If you have to buy I'm not gonna bother.

[HereBeMonsters]

KaraK said:

Not sure how this is going to pan out for me.. I'm an existing Prime and LOVEFILM customer and so far I've been unable to find out what will happen to my LOVEFILM subscription, the package I'm on with them is £9.99 a month for two discs at once and the streaming. They don't do this package any more (all the others are more expensive) and they don't offer one that doesn't have streaming so essentially if I want to keep my discs at home subscription I effectively have to pay for streaming twice! Really I think if they are going to combine these two then they need to do it properly not in this half-arsed way they are doing so far!

Let me know, as I'm in exactly the same boat. If I find out anything in the meantime, I'll report back.

[Silver Smudger]

carreauchompeur said:

I'm glad this has pissed other people off too. I turned on LoveFilm the the day after receiving the e-mail about it moving to Amazon. Tried to watch the next of the Spooks box set I was on and it told me to go to Amazon to buy it!

They can FRO. The whole point of a subscription service is that you get to choose free stuff, not pay again... Muppets.

On the Amazon page, try searching for Spooks, but select Amazon Instant Video from the drop-down next to the search box. What season were you looking for? They seem to have all but season 4 for some reason.

[carreauchompeur]

I'd re-started Season One. Not a biggie however, might start on 24...

[Silver Smudger]

Season one is there - Just watched 5 mins and it works just the same as Lovefilm did, which is to say annoying jittery Silverlight, as before

[anonymous-user]

Well as a prime customer I thought I would try it, utter ste with lots of stuttering. Anything that I actually wanted to watch was chargeable, what happened to the free of charge they have advertised?

Charging £79 for this and prime is too much, if they don't sort it out then this one customer who won't be renewing...

[Siscar]

I do find this weird, I've watched a few things now at no extra charge, I use the app on the iPad and Airplay it to an Apple TV and it works really well. No stuttering and no quality loss on 55" screen. So for all the negative opinions I don't see what the problem is other than the fact that I now seem to have something I didn't ask for.

[evilmunkey]

FiF said:

I don't get it either.

I watched an episode of the IT crowd as a test.
Forgotten how good it was so started to watch through season 1.
Next day Amazon want to charge me for it. 1.89 an episode.
So I thought stuff you Amazon intending to not renew in Sept.
Tonight it's back on Free with Prime.

Funking bizarre.

Ceryainly is especially as the it crowd is currently being shown on freeview and as a latecomer to a fantastic show i have just bought the complete box set at asda for 20 quid Amazon is taking the piss in a large way. there are always .. ahem other methods cough for watching series too
and they dont cost anything. nice to have aphysical disc though also the extras on the box set are bloody funny !

[FiF]

Yep completely taking the piss.

As you say the box set can be found quite cheaply.
Even on Amazon they only want £25 odd for the physical disc set.
£47 odd for all four seasons on streaming.
Even if you watch season 1 for free you still have to pay for 2-4 at just under £12 per season.

Amazon can FRO basically.

This sort of stuff is why I flatly refused to buy a Kindle. This company is one of the reasons, along with the sodding supermarkets pushing for the ending of the net book agreement, that has resulted in the decimation of many decent bookshops.

Prime will NOT be renewed. I wish they were reading this thread.

[MartinDB]

For those watching TV series, are the episodes in the correct order for you? I'm catching up on Reno 911, and series 4, 5 and 6 are all over the place.

[P-Jay]

Incidentally, for you boxset fans, are you Sky customers? they recently sent me a little box to go on top of our Plus box, we can download huge amounts of TV series straight into the plus box, works wonderfully and it's 'free'.

[sato]

I'm a long term Lovefilm user and find the changes a complete mess.
I've set up a PIN to restrict any purchases as it is really not clear what I get to stream for free and what I have to pay for, and have absoultley no intention of paying for content beyond my subscribtion.

I guess time will tell if the free content improves or gets worse.

[Lucas Ayde]

kapiteinlangzaam said:

Ive signed in for this on the one month free trial - launched with much publicity today.

Does it work with my Samsung smart tv - no, even though the website says it should

Does it work with my Panasonic smart tv - no

Does it work with my Panasonic smart bluray - no

Does it work with my Roku - no

Does it work on my Android phone - no

Tried to have a conversation about it with an automaton from India via the help chat. A frustrating experience to say the least.

I dont think NetFlix will exactly be quaking in their boots

Works very well on my Samsung Smart TV but I'm disappointed at the lack of Android app, even though they have a working app on their Kindle Fire which would be trivial for them to 'port' over to proper Android. Clearly an attempt to push sales of the Fire but I think it will backfire. They've been forward thinking on making Kindle book and mp3 streaming clients available for multiple platforms so hopefully they'll see sense on the video streaming side.

I can see that it's going to annoy people who were already using prime as they now face paying extra for a streaming media service that they didn't want. Personally, I was thinking about getting prime before this but not really convinced of the value. However, as they offered a year of the prime with the streaming media service at £49, I took them up on the offer. I wouldn't pay the £79 full price for it once the initial offer expires though, unless they really up their choice of video.

[Mutley]

^^^ Good idea to set up a purchase pin, will do that myself.


I do wonder if the conversion to Prime is in advance of them rolling out their own set top box?
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/amazon-said-to-be...